The Nature of Method

Author

Emma H. Mater, Marquette University

Date of Award

8-1929

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Education

First Advisor

George E. Vander Beke

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

The child, the learner, as the center of interest around which the materials of development group themselves, is a primary concept of the new school. Experience, is the keynote. According to Rugg & Shumaker (1), the aims of the new education are two-fold, maximum growth in creative self-expression on one hand, and tolerant understanding of self and of society on the other. Freedom, pupil initiative, the active school, with the essential element of child interest, are the articles of faith of the new educational program. Experience, the complete integrated life of the individual, must go on in a thoroughly integrated situation. Method, then, as the way the mind works in acquiring experience, is mediatory, — an effective way of employing material for some end.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Recommended Citation

Mater, Emma H., "The Nature of Method" (1929). Bachelors’ Theses. 1977.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1977